The Spirit and the Still-life
Pneumatological Reflections on Visual Art
The Spirit and the Still-life
Pneumatological Reflections on Visual Art
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Description
This book explores how the Spirit is represented in visual art, but also how the Spirit is at work in and through visual art, in all its forms.
The authors engage visual art from the perspective of pneumatology to give theologies of culture fruitful new perspectives that begin with the Spirit rather than other common theological contact points. The book explores the Spirit's role in art-making, looks at how the Spirit engages culture through the arts, and shows how the church has historically engaged the Spirit through visual art. Contributors ask how Christian convictions about and experiences of the Spirit might shape the way one thinks about visual art.
Table of Contents
Part I: Sketching the Movements of the Spirit
Chapter 1: The Birth and Rebirth of Images: the Spirit, Kenosis, and the Renewal of Representation, by Chris E.W. Green
Chapter 2: (Spirit) The Unseen Person: Contemporary Visual Art as Cultural Vessels of Spirit, by Maria Eugenia Fee
Chapter 3: The Story of Street Art & Sainte-Madeleine, by G. James Daichendt
Chapter 4: Does Christian Kitsch Quench the Spirit?: The Theo-ethical Responsibilities of Public Christian Art, by Steven Félix-Jäger
Part II: Visualizing the Spirit in Culture
Chapter 5: Testing the Spirit(s) in Modern Art: The Birth of Abstraction in Vassily Kandinsky's Compositions, by Taylor Worley and Charles Howell
Chapter 6: Painting in Tongues: Suffering, Play, and Beauty in the Artwork of Marc Chagall, by Robby Waddell
Chapter 7: “Painting My Masterpiece”: Bob Dylan, Painter and Songwriter, and the Spirit as Artist, by Jeff S. Lamp
Chapter 8: Bradford, Baldwin, and the Holy Spirit: a Pentecostal Pneumatological Engagement with Non-Christian Art, by Asia Lerner-Gay
Part III: Visual Practice and the Lived Experience
Chapter 9: The Art of Attention: Ruach's Role in Making Visible the Invisible, by Joyce Yu-Jean Lee
Chapter 10: Memories of Doves and Flames: Between Sight and Insight in Pentecostal Liturgies, by Andrew Opie and Joshua Edwards
Chapter 11: The Tree of Vocation: Discerning Artistic Vocation with the Spirit by Christine Lee Smith
Chapter 12: The Practice and Benefits of Spirit-led Live Visual Art in the Church: Creating “Bridges to Wonder” for Congregations, by J. Scott McElroy
Conclusion: From Gesture to Form, by Steven Félix-Jäger
About the Contributors
Product details
| Published | May 14 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781978762527 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Illustrations | 10 tables |
| Series | Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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